Whenever you add a domain name as hosted in some account, you normally set a pair of Name Servers to point it to that particular company. On their end, 3 records are created automatically right after the domain name is added - one A record and two MX records. The first one is a numeric address, or IP address, that “tells” the Internet domain where its website is, while the other two are alphanumeric and they show the server that handles the e-mails for that particular Internet domain. The site and the e-mail hosting are usually thought to be one thing, when they're in reality two different services. Having independent records for them will permit you to have them with different companies if you would like. As an example, some new service provider could have outstanding uptime for your website, but you may not want to switch your emails from your current host and by using an A record to point the domain name to the former and MX records to have the emails with the second, you will get the best of both providers. These records are checked when you wish to open a site or send an e-mail - in either case, the provider whose name servers are used for the domain name will be contacted to retrieve the A and MX records and if you've set records different from their own, the right web/mail server will then be contacted and you're going to see the needed website or your email is going to be delivered.

Custom MX and A Records in Cloud Website Hosting

If you have a cloud website hosting plan through us, you'll be able to view, create and change any A or MX record for your Internet addresses. Provided that a particular domain name has our Name Servers, you will be able to change certain records via our Hepsia hosting CP and have your site or e-mails directed to another service provider if you want to use only one of our services. Our advanced tool is going to permit you to have a domain name hosted here and a subdomain below it to be hosted elsewhere by changing only its A record - this will not affect the main domain name the slightest bit. If you want to use the e-mail services of a different service provider and they want you to set up more than two MX records, you can easily do it with only a few clicks in the DNS Records section of your Control Panel. You can also set different latency for every single MX record i.e. which one will have priority.

Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

With the semi-dedicated hosting plans that we offer, you're going to have full control over the records of all domain names and subdomains which you add in your hosting account. You can easily check what A and MX records each of them has from the DNS Records section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel and modifying any record requires simply a couple of clicks. If you want to switch your web or email hosting provider, you can edit the required record and direct your domain name to the other service provider for one of the services, as you still continue using the other one through us. You may also keep the main domain name here, while you edit the A record of only one of its subdomains. In case you are changing the MX records and you need additional ones on top of the default two we have, you can create them with ease and set a different priority for each and every one.